Beautifully explained.
It was this unfettered military interventionism that has contributed greatly to effectively bankrupting this country. And in doing so, it has not made us "stronger" but weaker; we are less secure in every respect, financially, militarily and in vulnerability to attack. The bill on this American bravado in doing anything we want, anywhere in the world we want, just came due -- and it is more than we can afford.
One would think that self-identified "conservatives" would realize that.
"One would think that self-identified "conservatives" would realize that."
Many self identified "conservatives" are social conservatives who want to turn back the clock to 1980. And in fact, if I had a time machine, I wouldn't mind joining them -- 1980 was a good year and I looked really fabulous! But unfortunately, life doesn't work that way -- and neither does politics.
The rest are neocons who are sure that no amount of military spending is "too much", no amount of "showing the world whose boss" is too much, no amount of huffing and puffing up their chests is "enough" -- armchair warriors who, in the service of their own inflated egos, exploit the lives of those brave ones who serve our country by sending them anywhere and everywhere, even into unwinnable and untenable situations, just because they can. And they think that this attitude makes them "great patriots". Frankly, they make me sick.